CHRIST, Who "ORIGINALLY BEING in the FORM (ESSENCE)
of GOD, COUNTED it NOT a PRIZE to be on an EQUALITY WITH GOD" (Philippians 2:6 cf.John 1:1),
and Who also NOW is "the FULNESS of the GODHEAD BODILY" (Colossians 2:9):
"EMPTIED HIMSELF" (Philippians 2:7) OF HIS DIVINE HEAVENLY GLORY WHEN "ON EARTH" (John 17:4-5),
so that "HE HATH NO FORM NOR COMELINESS ... NO BEAUTY THAT WE SHOULD DESIRE HIM" (Isaiah 53:2)
"HAVING TAKEN UPON HIMSELF THE FORM OF A SERVANT
(BOND SLAVE)" (Philippians 2:7) for "THE SON OF MAN CAME NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER"
(Mark 10:45) - "BEHOLD ... MY SERVANT THE BRANCH" (Zechariah 13:8)
"BECOMING IN THE LIKENESS OF MEN" (Philippians 2:7)
for God sent His Son "IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH" (Romans 8:3) and "YET WITHOUT SIN" (Hebrews 4:15)
"EVEN THE DEATH OF THE CROSS" (Philippians 2:8),
i.e. "BECOMING A CURSE FOR US: for it is written, CURSED IS EVERY ONE THAT HANGETH ON A TREE" (Galatians 3:13 cf.Deuteronomy 21:22-23) - "WHO HIS OWN SELF BARE OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BODY ON THE TREE"
(I Peter 2:24)
"WHEREFORE God hath HIGHLY EXALTED Him" (Philippians 2:9),
BECAUSE "He HUMBLED Himself, and BECAME OBEDIENT UNTO DEATH, EVEN THE DEATH OF THE CROSS" (Philippians 2:8)
"WHEN He had by Himself PURGED OUR SINS, SAT DOWN
on the RIGHT HAND of the MAJESTY ON HIGH" (Hebrews 1:3 cf.Psalms 110:1)
"NOW that He ASCENDED, what is it BUT that He ALSO
DESCENDED into the LOWEST PARTS of the earth? He that DESCENDED is the SAME that ALSO ASCENDED FAR ABOVE ALL heavens"
(Ephesians 4:9-10)
PETER'S MESSAGE PROPHESIED "since the world began"
(Acts 3:21) declared CHRIST to be "EXALTED (Greek, HUPSOO)" (Acts 2:33;Acts 5:31), BUT PAUL'S MESSAGE "KEPT SECRET since the world began" (Romans 16:25)
UNIQUELY presents CHRIST as being "HIGHLY EXALTED (Greek, HUPERUPSOO)" (Philippians 2:9)
"THE NAME which is ABOVE EVERY NAME" (Philippians 2:9 cf.Isaiah 9:6;Hebrews 1:4)
is THE NAME which was GIVEN (Philippians 2:9) at His Birth as the GOD MAN, i.e. as "THE WORD ... MADE FLESH"
(John 1:1,14) - "thou shalt CALL HIS NAME JESUS: for He shall SAVE HIS PEOPLE
FROM THEIR SINS" (Matthew 1:21)
WHILE ON EARTH (Matthew 1:23), HIS NAME was associated with HIS HUMILIATION - "And Pilate wrote
a TITLE, and put it ON THE CROSS ... JESUS OF NAZARETH KING OF THE JEWS" (John 19:19 cf.John 1:45-46)
"That at THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE should BOW
,,, and that EVERY TONGUE CONFESS that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, to the Glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:10-11)
The ETERNAL PURPOSE of God the Father concerning "CHRIST
JESUS OUR LORD" (Ephesians 3:11) is that God the Father "hath PURPOSED in Himself" (Ephesians 1:9)
to "GATHER (HEAD UP) ... ALL THINGS IN CHRIST ... which are IN HEAVEN, and which are IN EARTH" (Ephesians 1:10)
with a REDEEMED HUMAN CREATION (Colossians 1:16-17,19-20)